It's 2008!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Pazz and Jop results.

No time to go back to the predictions thread, but xhuxk was right about MIA winning singles, and I was right about Portishead doing very well in albums, and I can't remember who else said what.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They could literally have reprinted one of the 938343493 lists from last year and I don't think I'd have noticed. Oh well the same things are good and bad about it I suppose. Still think the presence of 'Single Ladies' in these lists is symptomatic of 90% of critics not paying attention to pop or r&b for the whole year and then hurriedly shoving a random chart-topper on to their ballot, but better that than MGMT or Fleet Fucking Foxes or whatever these people with terrible taste also vote for.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

(And I agree w/Martin - the Beyoncé album is as inexplicably underrated as 'Single Ladies' is inexplicably overrated.)

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing it might have done better if it had been released even a month earlier, but I may be misremembering exactly when it was available and when the polls were done.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There's no excuse w/P&J where ballots were due on the 5th. But I don't think the B album is much good, so I'm not that bothered.

"Single Ladies" has grown on me but yeah, a baffling choice as the consensus pop pick. Maybe she's pop's Springsteen as far as the P&J voters go!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Except it isn't "the consensus pop pick" obv - that's "American Boy"!

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

Word! (Esp. about not paying attention to r&b until list-making time.)